Scraps - Netflix

FYI is partnering with Sur La Table to produce the new culinary series
Scraps, where national Sur La Table Chef Joel Gamoran travels across
the U.S. creating incredible feasts in unexpected places, using the most
out-of-the-box ingredients – food waste and scraps. Each episode of
SCRAPS will follow Chef Joel to a new city where he partners with food
waste champions to celebrate the local cuisine and create a delicious
meal with food items many consider to be waste, like banana peels,
shrimp shells, chicken bones and carrot stems. The pressure will be on
as Joel will have less than a day to source ingredients, build a full
menu and create a meal for an outdoor dinner party. From roadside
foraging, to chocolate roasting, to oyster hunting – viewers will follow
Joel on a one-of-a-kind food sourcing adventure in his refurbished 1963
Volkswagen bus, which doubles as his mobile kitchen.

The new KitchenAid® Artisan® Mini Mixer, Stand Mixer attachments and
high-performance Pro Line® Series Blender will be used in the series to
make everything from fresh pasta to veggie noodles and more.

Type: Reality

Languages: English

Status: Running

Runtime: 30 minutes

Premier: 2017-05-21

Scraps - Japan - Netflix

Japan (Japanese: 日本; Nippon [ɲippoɴ] or Nihon [ɲihoɴ]; formally 日本国
Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, lit. “State of Japan”) is a sovereign island
country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the
eastern coast of the Asian mainland and stretches from the Sea of
Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and China in the southwest.
The kanji that make up Japan's name mean “sun origin”, and it is often
called the “Land of the Rising Sun”. Japan is a stratovolcanic
archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are
Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven
percent of Japan's land area and often are referred to as home islands.
The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions, with
Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the
southernmost one. The population of 127 million is the world's tenth
largest. Japanese people make up 98.5% of Japan's total population.
About 9.1 million people live in Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as
the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in
Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other
regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, particularly
from Western Europe, has characterized Japan's history. From the 12th
century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military
shōguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a long
period of isolation in the early 17th century, which was ended in 1853
when a United States fleet pressured Japan to open to the West. After
nearly two decades of internal conflict and insurrection, the Imperial
Court regained its political power in 1868 through the help of several
clans from Chōshū and Satsuma—and the Empire of Japan was established.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victories in the First
Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan
to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The
Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in
1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender. Since adopting its
revised constitution on May 3, 1947, during the occupation by the SCAP,
Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
with an Emperor and an elected legislature called the National Diet.
Japan is a member of the ASEAN Plus mechanism, UN, the OECD, the G7, the
G8 and the G20—and is considered a great power. The country has the
world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the world's
fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the
world's fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer. The country
benefits from a highly skilled workforce and is among the most highly
educated countries in the world, with one of the highest percentages of
its citizens holding a tertiary education degree. Although Japan has
officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern
military with the world's eighth-largest military budget, used for
self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a highly developed country
with a very high standard of living and Human Development Index. Its
population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest
infant mortality rate in the world. Japan is renowned for its historical
and extensive cinema, rich cuisine and its major contributions to
science and modern-day technology.

Scraps - Climate - Netflix

The climate of Japan is predominantly temperate, but varies greatly from
north to south. Japan's geographical features divide it into six
principal climatic zones: Hokkaido, Sea of Japan, Central Highland, Seto
Inland Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Ryukyu Islands. The northernmost zone,
Hokkaido, has a humid continental climate with long, cold winters and
very warm to cool summers. Precipitation is not heavy, but the islands
usually develop deep snowbanks in the winter. In the Sea of Japan zone
on Honshu's west coast, northwest winter winds bring heavy snowfall. In
the summer, the region is cooler than the Pacific area, though it
sometimes experiences extremely hot temperatures because of the foehn.
The Central Highland has a typical inland humid continental climate,
with large temperature differences between summer and winter seasons, as
well as large diurnal variation; precipitation is light, though winters
are usually snowy. The mountains of the Chūgoku and Shikoku regions
shelter the Seto Inland Sea from seasonal winds, bringing mild weather
year-round. The Pacific coast features a humid subtropical climate that
experiences milder winters with occasional snowfall and hot, humid
summers because of the southeast seasonal wind. The Ryukyu Islands have
a subtropical climate, with warm winters and hot summers. Precipitation
is very heavy, especially during the rainy season. The average winter
temperature in Japan is 5.1 °C (41.2 °F) and the average summer
temperature is 25.2 °C (77.4 °F). The highest temperature ever measured
in Japan 41.0 °C (105.8 °F) was recorded on August 12, 2013. The main
rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front
gradually moves north until reaching Hokkaido in late July. In most of
Honshu, the rainy season begins before the middle of June and lasts
about six weeks. In late summer and early autumn, typhoons often bring
heavy rain.